Elizabethtown College Uses EITC Donations to Expand Science Learning

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(top) Peter H. Phillips, CEO Phillips Group, presents a $15,000 check. (bottom) Patty Barthel, of Waste Management, presents a check for $5,000. Accepting the donation is SIM Director Wendy Martin.

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (11/15/2011)(readMedia)-- The Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program allows Pennsylvania businesses to redirect state tax dollars to nonprofit institutions. Elizabethtown College, as an Educational Improvement Organization, recently received two donations and will utilize the funds to expand the educational programming of its Science in Motion (SIM) program, which helps public and private secondary schools augment their science education efforts.

Waste Management of Lancaster, Pa., presented a check in the amount of $5,000 to the College; Phillips Group and Phillips Capital of Middletown, Pa., presented a check in the amount of $15,000. Wendy Martin, site director of the SIM program, accepted the donations on behalf of Elizabethtown College.

"These donations will be used to purchase equipment and materials that will expand the range of labs that SIM can offer to schools," said Martin. "EITC funds ensure that the van remains on the road helping schools enhance their science programs."

Through EITC donations, and other pooled resources, the program delivers high-tech science equipment to schools, offers the services of a mobile educator, provides a staffed preparation center and organizes various professional development programs for teachers. The SIM program provides these services to Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks and Schuylkill counties.

Link to more information and guidelines about the EITC program:

www.newpa.com, keyword search: EITC Business

www.paschoolchoice.org-EITC

Elizabethtown College, in south-central Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Through personal attention, creative inspiration and academic challenge, Elizabethtown College students are encouraged to expand their intellectual curiosity and are given the opportunity to become a bigger part of the world through experiential learning-research, internships and study abroad. Elizabethtown College's overall commitment to Educate for Service is fulfilled as students are taught intellectually, socially, aesthetically and ethically for lives of service and leadership.

Visit www.etown.edu for more information about Elizabethtown College.